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VIBURNUM odoratissimum. 
China Laurestine. 
— n 
PENTANDRIA THIGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. CAPRIFOLIA. Jussieu gen. 210. Div. INI, Calyx bractea- 
tus. Stylus nullus: stigmata 3. Cor. monopetala. 
VIBURNUM. Supra vol. 5. fol. 316. 
V. odoratissimum, sempervirens, glabrum; foliis coriaceis elliptico-oblongis, 
distanter subdentatis margine reflexo: thyrso omnino hermaphrodito bra- 
chiato, ramulorum pedunculis trichotomo-pedicellatis. 
Frutex sempervirens, erectus, glaber, ramis teretibus robustis punctis ex- 
tantibus, verruculatis. Fol. opposita (modò verticillato-trina), coriacea, 
patentia, elliptico-oblonga, distantér nervosa, margine subtili cartilagined 
reflexä obsolet? distantérque dentatá vel interdum subintegrá, petiolum versüs 
attenuata, acumine brevi obtusulo apiculata, subtüs pallentia, juniora lucido 
letèque virentia, seniora opaciora, majora nunc 5-uncialia latitudine fermé 
3-unciali: petiolus ad maximum 3 uncie longus. Thyrsi terminales brachiato- 
decompositi, stricti, laziùs numerosiflori, subtriunciales, glabri, patentes 
bracteati, ramulis in pedunculos trichotomo-pedicellatos terminantibus: pe- 
dicelli proprii brevissimi crassi basi cicatrice dilapse bractee profund? notati; 
bracteze sphacelate, acuminate, caduce ; pedicellorum minime. Cal. mi- 
mutus, campanulatus, rotundatè 5-lobulatus, pallidus. Cor. carnosula, tur- 
binato-rotata, alba, caduca, lutescentèr-emarcescens: tubus triplo longior 
calyce vel magis fauce dilatatá; limbus sublongior tubo, revoluto-reflecten- 
dus, laciniis rotundatis convexis. Fil. tubo adnata, laciniis corolle alterna, 
divaricata, equalia limbo, subulata, alba, stricta, persistentia: anth. in- 
cumbentes, oblonga, biloba, lobis linearibus basi sagittato-distinctis: pollen 
ochroleucum. Germ. disco glanduloso depresso viridi orbiculato fundo calycis 
delitescente insidens, virens, conicum, «quale calyci, rotundatè trigonum, 
tubo corolle inclusum, stigmate obsoleté tricolli continuo pallido pruinoso 
apiculatum. 
A handsome evergeen shrub, with blossom scarcely in- 
ferior in fragrance to that of the well-known Sweet Olive of 
India (Orga fragrans). The species is of recent introduc- 
tion, and said to be native of China. It does not appear 
to have been recorded. The plant from which the drawing 
has been taken was kindly sent to us by Sir Abraham Hume 
from the collection at Wormleybury, where it flowered last 
February for the first time in this country. It has been 
treated till now as a hothouse plant, but will probably be 
found to (lower more freely when it shall have been treated 
less tenderly. We saw fine strong samples of it in the stove 
